as you understand it. reporter: whether i support the protester is not the point. the point is that the regime has lost credibility. regardless of whether you support the regime or not. the regime has lost credibility. and the face of the egyptian people and the international community on every level. on every level. so we ve been put in a basic situation. regardless of whether you support the regime, what is being used now are scare tactics to scare egyptians that unless they support this, they will be tormented. that s what s happening. people are hiding in their homes. people are on the streets with knives. people are scared and the government is leaving us to be scared like this. because they want the people to succumb. they want people to feel that the only option is to follow the government. whether you like it or not. let me ask you this final
that s where this chart come in. that we can zoom in on quickly. i want to talk to you about it. we have this up right now for you at cnn.com and our technology section. what it does is it shows you internet activity in egypt each day. and then it shows you what happened. and the 27th, all of a sudden, it is basically gone. to this tiny little trickle way down here. there are two thing to understand about this. we can talk this out as we go back. even with that little trickle going original it gets amplified all over the world. so those people out there who are managing to get out tweets, youtube videos, i-reports they send to us. people all order the world were then sharing them. this is a sign that no matter how hard some government might try, it is impossible in this era to completely block out that kind of internet access. what gets out will be amplified. the other point to understand, really important, is technology inside egypt. most egyptians are not facebooking and tweeting.
earlier to cnn from new york. as you heard him say, the economy has been a focal point. but why? some background. egypt fared well during the global economic crisis. the company s gross domestic product grew more than 5% in 2010. but unemployment was he is may to be at 9.7. the inflation climbed to more than 12%. and food prices have been steadily increasing tow last three years. analysts estimate they are going up about 17% a year. also, about 40% of all egyptians live in poverty. which the world bank defines as $2 a day or less in income. we will be keeping you up to gate egypt throughout the coming hours. in a moment we ll look at the link between tweeting and turmoil. [ male announcer ] introducing listerine® zero™. we removed the alcohol and made it less intense. now people everywhere are getting a deep clean and fresher mouth
housesful you have to understand, we re not a traditionally arm or violent people as egyptians. we don t carry guns usually so we are not prepared for this. and the police is nowhere to be found. the military is nowhere to be found. and we keep hearing reports of bandits coming loose. we heard from a nearby group of friends of ours, that they captured a group of bandits. five of them were in a car. they were escaped convicts and they were able to capture them. in another area very close by as well. we had a micro bus that was ravaging through the area and shooting guns in the air rapidly. and they were also captured by citizens who have taken justice into their own hands. because as you can see here, the state has completely failed us. the regime has completely failed in being able to provide basic security. and one thing that egyptians are
let s get the latest in egypt. tanks and troops are standing guard in cairo where those massive protests we ve been seeing have not materialized today on. saturday, egyptians took to the streets once more. they were apparently not satisfied by president hosni mubarak s government shake-up. they re calling for him to go. the protests have by some accounts left upwards of 100 people dead and there has been some absoluting and many egyptians are arming themselves. here s an update on some of the other stories making headlines. russian authorities say they ve identified the person who set off a bomb at the country s busiest airport. investigators say it was a 20-year-old man. 35 people were kill and dozens wounded in that attack which took place last monday. investigators in eastern germany are trying to find out why an express passenger train and freight train collided late saturday.